Trevor Bell RA English, 1930-2017
Split Wheal, 1985
Acrylic on two shaped canvas stretchers.
Signed, titled and dated on reverse.
Overall: 196 x 355.6 cm (77 x 140 in.)
1930201702
© The Estate of Trevor Bell
Further images
In the mid 1980s, whilst working in Florida, Trevor Bell produced this painting called 'Split Wheal'. It was one of a group of what he called ‘rockers.’ This term, ‘rockers,’...
In the mid 1980s, whilst working in Florida, Trevor Bell produced this painting called 'Split Wheal'. It was one of a group of what he called ‘rockers.’ This term, ‘rockers,’ is one of Bell’s disingenuously throwaway headings for the visual appearance of groups of paintings. The ‘rockers’ are broadly semicircular, with an interstice which generates a rocking circular rhythm. They recall the forms and gestures of some St Ives artists, notably Frost. The term might also prompt a tongue-in-cheek association with a leather jacketed up-beat feeling.
Provenance
An unknown corporate collection, Florida, USA.Skinner Inc. MA, USA, auction, 2016.
Private collection, UK.
Porthminster Gallery, St Ives.
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